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Police clashed with demonstrators protesting the visit of Vice President Dick Cheney hours before he arrived in Australia to thank one of Washington's staunchest supporters in the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.
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Britain's Ministry of Defense announced that Prince Harry, a second lieutenant in the British army, would be deployed to Iraq. Officials later reversed the decision because of insurgent threats.
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In Colombia Jorge Noguera, a former director of the secret police under President Alvaro Uribe, was arrested and charged in connection with the murders of labor leaders and academics while collaborating with far-right militias responsible for some of Colombia's worst massacres. In Cali, Colombia, confused hit men on the lookout for two men in a white sedan gun down the wrong people. Then they spot their intended targets, in the same traffic jam 20 yards away. And killed them, too. It was all caught on a traffic camera.
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Estonia's president vetoed legislation calling for the removal of a Soviet war memorial, averting at least temporarily a confrontation with Russia. Estonia chose Baltic herring over the pike in a government-sponsored contest to find a fish suitable to join the blue, black and white flag, the blue cornflower, limestone, and chimney swallow as national symbols.
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Abdel Kareem Nabil (22), an Egyptian blogger, was convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison in Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger.
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Gambia expelled Fadzai Gwaradzimba, the UN chief representative in the country, after she expressed doubts over President Yahya Jammeh's claims to cure AIDS. Jammeh had claimed to have mystical powers and herbs to treat HIV/AIDS and asthma within three days.
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Lothar-Guenther Buchheim (89), the German author and art collector best known for his 1973 autobiographical novel, "Das Boot," died. In 1981
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1989 –
Alia Sabur, American college educator
1988 –
Kevin Borlée, Belgian athlete
1988 –
Przemyslaw Kazimierczak, Polish footballer
1987 –
Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
1986 –
Miko Hughes, American actor
1986 –
Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
1985 –
Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
1985 –
Sean Garballey, American politician
1984 –
VenetianPrincess (Jodie-Amy Rivera), YouTube celebrity
1983 –
Penny Flame, American pornographic actress
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February, 22
- Births
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2007,
Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007,
Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007,
Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2007,
George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)
2006,
Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2005,
Zdzislaw Beksinski, Polish artist (b. 1929)
2005,
Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2005,
Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
2004,
Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2004,
Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
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February, 22
- Deaths
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